Turn off ALL shadows in vray 1.49.01

Badeindi · 9 Apr 2012, 08:34

Hey dear fellows - Im new to this forum - I'working now with sketchup 8.0 and the Vray Render 1.49.01 I think everything works fine for me - but at the moment I have a project I'am working at and I don't want any shadows at all.

In the global enviroment options I disabled the shadows

In the sketchup shadow settings I also disabled first "display: on ground / display: on faces" I dont have any additonal light sources then the GI Light.

What should I turn off to don't render the shadows? At this point I don't have a clue

Thanks for you help - it is appreciated!

regards Badeindi

andybot · 9 Apr 2012, 09:01

try your vray material editor - there's an option to not cast shadows (you'll have to do it for each material)

thomthom · 9 Apr 2012, 09:55

Remove the Sky map from GI and Background under Environment.
Might need to turn off Default Light under General Switches.

That's what I do - and then usually reply in a plain colour in the GI to give a nice soft light from all direction that leaves no shadow.

SketchUp's own shadow settings has no effect on VRay (other than controlling sun position)

andybot · 9 Apr 2012, 10:45

oh, right- turn off default light in the global options. Background doesn't add any illumination does it?

thomthom · 9 Apr 2012, 11:14

@andybot said:

oh, right- turn off default light in the global options. Background doesn't add any illumination does it?

No - it doesn´t. Just assumed that the sky wasn´t wanted at all.

Badeindi · 11 Apr 2012, 05:20

Hi Guys! Thanks for all the replies! I`ve found the solutions but you all pointed towards the solution too - in "Settings Enviroment" I went to GI Color and then to the "M" button to switch off any shadows in the window "TexSky" - no shadows any more

best regards

Badeindi!

arejaniro · 5 Jun 2013, 00:47

@thomthom said:

Remove the Sky map from GI and Background under Environment.
Might need to turn off Default Light under General Switches.

That's what I do - and then usually reply in a plain colour in the GI to give a nice soft light from all direction that leaves no shadow.

SketchUp's own shadow settings has no effect on VRay (other than controlling sun position)

I have the same situation, but I don't know how to remove the skymap from GI, Background is off and Default Lights are off.. I keep getting the shadows from my sketchUp model. This is driving me nuts!

Tomaccess0 · 26 Dec 2016, 06:40

The little "m" button stands for editing the map of that item. Besides, I found that you don't have to turn the whole sun off, making the whole result dark. You onlt have to get inside the sun map, and turn off shadow